‘Makes me sick’: Teenage girl concussed after brutal basketball attack

Footage has emerged of a disturbing cheap shot during a basketball game that left a teenager concussed and her mother “in shock”.

A disturbing cheap shot during a California basketball game left a teen girl concussed and her mother “in shock”.

The New York Post reported that at an event in Southern California, 15-year-old Lauryn Ham was sucker-punched by one of her opponents. According to her mother, she’s still recovering from the brutal punch over the weekend.

“Of course I was in total shock,” the victim’s mother, Alice Ham, told ABC7. “Just couldn’t believe that could happen to my child.”

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Ham said her daughter was disoriented when she came home after the game.

“The person in question went down the court and shot a 3-pointer, landed, fell backwards into my daughter,” Ham said.

“As they got up and turned and were walking back down to the other side of the court, her mum says to her, ‘You need to hit her for that.’ And the child in question sucker-punched my daughter.”

Ham told the outlet that she filed a police report, and that she felt “it rises to the level of assault, the way that she does it with such intent and brutal force.”

Teenage girl concussed after attack.

The mother says her daughter is still feeling the effects days after the incident, unable to attend school or maintain focus.

“You always see things on video and you never think it could happen to you,” Ham said. “To actually see it and know that was my kid just hurt me so bad.”

Ham’s mother shared a clip of the incident to Instagram, captioning the post: “This right here makes me SICK to my stomach. This happened to MY DAUGHTER at her game yesterday.

“There is absolutely no place for something like this in basketball, I don’t care how famous you are! This mum told her daughter to ‘go and hit her’ and my kid gets an unprovoked sucker punch. I’m sorry but it’s everything that’s wrong with youth sports.

“The girl and her mum showed absolutely no remorse and offered no apology. Youth sports needs to change.”

The family of the girl who threw the punch has retained an attorney.

“We’re very sorry … we want everybody to feel safe. We want everyone to feel secure,” Gary Thomas, chief executive of Avac United, the group that hosted the event told KTLA.

“This is an environment where kids should have fun and enjoy and be safe.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission